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Lambgoat Album of the Year 2011

12/7/2011 3:16:16 PM
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Help us choose the first annual Lambgoat Album of the Year.
We need your help. The year is just about over, and we want to find out what you guys collectively view to be the top metal or hardcore album of 2011. We selected 100 albums that we hope represent a decent sampling of bands, genres, and labels. Obviously, we couldn't include every release, so we apologize for any omissions. If your favorite 2011 album isn't here, comment about it, and then vote for your second favorite, or whatever. You can only vote once. If we catch you attempting to game the system, your votes will be discounted. We will announce the winner and runners-up in one week. Thanks for your help.


Ok, roughly 4,000 of you have voted and the results are in. Congrats to Volumes for having the 2011 Lambgoat Album of the Year. Check out the full results of our poll below.




Comments
virus_dot_exe   posted 77 days ago
notice how none of these bands ever show up in the news section and its just a bunch of jackoff bands with dumb haircuts in there? am i right or am i right
scotty   posted 77 days ago
I voted for Wilco. Metal sucks.
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
for the fallen dreams should be on here also volumes
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
born of osiris is missing :O
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
No Counterparts? This list can't be taken seriously.
godless   posted 77 days ago
Kill Everyone Now Mode
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
i voted for Volumes, but don't tell anyone
mobab   posted 77 days ago
it goes to Exhumed, hands down
menfuckyeah   posted 77 days ago
Atlas Moth
xdarylstrawberryx   posted 77 days ago
i voted for mpb. i haven't even heard that album yet.
cacabutt   posted 77 days ago
well tamperdata didn't work on that. i didn't really want to vote for yob
carveyournamein   posted 77 days ago
Cynic, idiots
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Why isn't Disma on this list?!
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Why is the Today Is The Day album not listed here?
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Where the fuck is Born of Osiris????
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
I think MyChildren MyBride- Lost Boys. And also The Plot In You - First Born. Should be on here.
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Volumes! Gus Farias<3
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Structures Divided By ????? A Lot Like Birds???..Volumes album got old after like 1 month
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Protest the Hero - Scurrilous.
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
BOO's The Discovery wasn't there so I voted Vildhjarta's Masstaden instead
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
IF YOU HAVE ANY BRAIN CELLS YOU WILL VILDHJARTA
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Weekend Nachos
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
where the fuck is pulling teeth? retards.
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Darker half
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Counterparts and Volumes should definitely be on here. voted for Dead Throne
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
A lot of shit bands. I voted for Harm's Way. I like how they've mixed some black metal and industrial influences with the new album. The new Xibalba record was awesome as well.
ryu   posted 77 days ago
graveyard you fucking fool
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Wait, Emmure is on here but Born of Osiris isn't? Yeah, something is fucking terribly wrong with that.
Selvin   posted 77 days ago
no Ampere? wait, this isn't vivalavinyl
fuckthisband   posted 77 days ago
wolves in the throne room. insanity.
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Hundredth!!!
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
no It Prevails? I disapprove.
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
I voted for BTBAM, but my real number one was Krallice
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Seeing as how there was no Born Of Osiris on there, I was forced to vote for Stray From The Path. It was going to be either them, or Suicide Silence, or Periphery.
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Born of Osiris? Damn some of you have crappy taste.
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Where is Salt The Wound's Kill The Crown? Seriously
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Where is Oh, Sleeper?
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
obviously none of yall have heard the animals as leader cuz it kills all of this shit
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Wormrot????
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
No Structures? No Counterparts? Hmm...
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
yep, I'm quitting this board.
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
BORN OF OSIRIS THE DISCOVERY ITS BETTER
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
VILDHJARTA FUCK YEAH - JoEY HERNANDEZ
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
dgentdgent dg-dg-dgent. dgent dg-dgent dgentdgent
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
Junius: Reports from the treshold of death
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
seriously no Today is the Day?!

voted for Nachos
brassknuckleromance   posted 77 days ago
webby, webby, re-do this in better categories please? thats waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many and my ocd is in overdrive now.
anonymous   posted 77 days ago
BORN OF OSIRIS-THE DISCOVERY
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Take Offense
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Where the fuck Is Darkest Hour
- K Bell BCHC
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Carbon based anatomy, without a doubt.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
The Project Hate MCMXCIX - "Bleeding the New Apocalypse (Cum Victriciis in Manibus Armis)"
also missing from the list: Septicflesh, Brutal Truth, Disma, The Gates of Slumber...
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
i know it just came out, but ERRA's new album Impulse deserves some consideration. So does Failure in Vanity's new album The Contender
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Landmine Marathon was just an album you keep playing over and over, it never loses it's playability because it's a solid disc.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Born of Osiris isn't on here cause deathcore fucking sucks!
nashvegas   posted 76 days ago
no Today is the Day!?!?
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Former Thieves, Cave-In, KENmode.

Those that voted for Emmure or any of that other horseshit...may god have mercy on your soul...
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
I voted for Ghost. Fuck you.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
The Atlas Moth, Black Cobra, Blut Aus Nord, Cave In, Devin Townsend Project, Fuck The Facts, Ghost, Indian, KEN Mode, Mastodon, Rwake, Tombs, WITTR, and YOB.

There are the ONLY bands even worth being on this list. Everything else is weak ass Deathcore, Metalcore, or just not that good of an album for the band (such as Opeth, who I love minus this latest album).

That said. My vote went to KEN Mode.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
HUNDREDTH
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
no red fang????
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
didn't see Septic Flesh or Devin Townsend on here so it goes to Mastodon.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
i retract my statement, i just now saw Devin Townsends Ghost on here. webby should've fucking categorized this better.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
DARKEST HOUR - THE HUMAN ROMANCE

How the fuck was that missed
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
This is lacking a few REALLY good albums. Oh, Sleeper released their best yet this year, so did Born of Osiris and Counterparts.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Since it's not an option on here, I'm saying fuck it and posting my vote right here for Pulling Teeth's "Funerary."
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Devin Townsend is easily the best. Deconstruction is a fucking masterpiece.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Born of Osiris should've been on here. Voted All Shall Perish
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
i'm surprised there's no spot for Oatherbreaker's Maelstrom. Fantastic record, especially for a debut full length from such a young band.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
TAKE OFFENSE - TABLES WILL TURN or
BACKTRACK - DARKER HALF
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
KEN mode, for the win
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
korn - the path of totality
deadwithfear   posted 76 days ago
Voting for anything other than ulcerate is ludicrous.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
KEN MODE. Hands down.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
VYGR - Hypersleep.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
i have to choose Harm's Way - Isolation over Earth Crisis - Neutralize The Threat..

where's Foundation - When The Smoke Clears
xdrummerx   posted 76 days ago
Weekend Nachos mother fuckers
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Periphery! yeah!
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
2011 was so good, Ulcerate gets my vote though.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Why is everyone bitching about Born of Osiris and Darkest Hour not being on the list? That shit is terrible. Hell, I'm surprised drivel like Suicide Silence and All Shall Perish made it on a "best of" list of any kind.

You punks need to listen to better music. Vote for Tombs, Toxic Holocaust, or Ken Mode. Otherwise stfu and reevaluate your "metal".
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Born of Osiris and For The Fallen Dreams may have released their best albums this year... doesnt mean they still aren't fucking horrible. So are most of the bands on this list. Music sucks now.
life_sucks_die   posted 76 days ago
there are some terribly shitty bands on here. hammers of misfortune? ghoul? saviours? capsule? ed gein? i vote opeth.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
where the fuck is hammers of misfortune?
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
KEN mode without a doubt.
withoutashield   posted 76 days ago
ryu posted 13 hours ago
graveyard you fucking fool
agent_friday   posted 76 days ago
Went with Fleshgod Apocalypse on this one.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Defeater? Fuck that band. The singer is such a self absorbed asshole.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Where is KICKBACK?
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
hate eternal > 98% of the bands on this ballot.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Animals as leaders, probably the most boring release of 2011. I hesitated between Opeth and Between the Buried and Me, but eventually voted for the latter.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Yeah, although I'm not going to go into it, at least BoO's "The Discovery" should have made this list. I mean they're on Sumerian for Christ's sake. There's way too many generic DM bands on this list...
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
just narrow it down to these top five:

Animals As Leaders
Black Cobra
KEN Mode
Krisiun
Ulcerate
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
not voting memphis may fire is not up there.
cgrind3000   posted 76 days ago
No Counterparts or The Story So Far? Bitches....
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
I only come here to read the hilarious shit talk, surprised nobody told all these bands to kill themselves yet
lordkarosu   posted 76 days ago
FUCK YEAH THE BLACK FUCKIN' DAHLIA MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
No Uneven Structure? What a joke.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Fleshgod all the way!!!
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Why isn't MOLOTOV SOLUTION on here? That album destroys 90% of albums this year.
HBDad   posted 76 days ago
Deven Townsend "Deconstruction" is the best album in the last 10 years or so in my opinion...
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Volumes ftw !!!!
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Wow. Liturgy Aesthethica isn't even listed. Suck.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Too no Capsule, no vote
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
I just don't even understand how Krallice was left off this list but the Opeth abortion wasn't. Ugh.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Why aren't these releases on here:

Entrails - The Tomb Awaits
Morbus Chron - Sleepers in the Rift

My vote would go to one of those albums.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Counterparts, Erra, and The Story So Far should be up here. But that's just me.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Slabdragger - Regress
dondeestasumadre   posted 76 days ago
LambGoat's List Didn't Mention These Artists (all of whom had sweet releases this year)

Thomas Giles, Sabertooth Zombie, Power, Hellhorse, Junius , Glass Jaw , Oh Sleeper, boris, Dance Gavin Dance, dr acula, east of the wall, evan brewer, fallujah, graveyard, the greenery, daggers, pianos become teeth, portugal the man, punch
dondeestasumadre   posted 76 days ago
Ken Mode - 1
Canibis Corpse - 2
DeafHeaven - 3
Mastodon - 4
Touche Amore - 5
Cave In- 6
Atlas Moth - 7
The Black Daliah Murder - 8
Devin Townsend - 9
Ulcerate - 10
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Pulling Teeth's Funeary,and Full Of hell's Roots of earth are consuming my home should have been onhere.

Wish I could have voted Nachos, APMD, Trap Them, and Defeater, had to choos APMD though.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
This is retarded born of osiris should most certainly win album of the year...
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
ULCERATE!!!!!!!!
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Volumes PEOPLE!!
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
Volumes!!
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
KENmode has got my vote...theres other goodies on the list, but i just cant stop listening to this record.
anonymous   posted 76 days ago
That's weird I didn't see the new Darkest Hour album...
Melvination   posted 75 days ago
Defeater, La Dispute, Skeletonwitch, Touche Amore, Trash Talk, Rotting Out, and Title Fight have the best records on this list. Don't waste your votes on something else.
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
MIDNIGHT
gorillatriscuits   posted 75 days ago
New Warbringer???
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
i miss Junius and Ghost Brigade
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
Seriously darkest hour should of made this
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
GHOST (Rise Above version as listed) was released in 2010
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
All pigs must die fo sho!
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
Haken - Visions is the best of the year by far
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
emmure should be on this
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
Decapitated! We all should invest in metal that was some substance to it seeing as a genre like "djent" wont even exist next year....trends....
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
What?! No ScepticFlesh!? or Belphegor ?!
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
Via. Definitely.
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
I voted for fuck the facts
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
Ghoul - Transmission Zero (Tankcrimes)

Bastard Noise - Skulldozer (Deep Six)

Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients (Rise Above)

you are all worthless and weak
anonymous   posted 75 days ago
Where the hell is Batillus - Furnance?!?
asaf   posted 74 days ago
it'd be sad to find out i was the only one who voted for tesseract
anonymous   posted 74 days ago
emmure should be on this
anonymous   posted 74 days ago
Metal Blade's BATTLECROSS
anonymous   posted 74 days ago
voted for Xibalba, viva la mexico!
anonymous   posted 74 days ago
Where is Structures? Divided By is one of the dopest albums this year! A lot of great albums are missing
anonymous   posted 74 days ago
A Plea For Purging needs to be on this list. #NAPFPNC
anonymous   posted 74 days ago
No Ballsack Mutilation Camp limited 8" flexi? What are guys, a bunch of commies?! Fix this list!
anonymous   posted 74 days ago
The Born Of Osiris street team has been heard.
anonymous   posted 74 days ago
Fuckin VYGR. It's always 4:20 somewhere.
anonymous   posted 74 days ago
^ you clearly don't understand how time zones work, though your vote is appreciated.
anonymous   posted 74 days ago
Volumes = Emmure in djent form

Have you seen those wiggers in their music video? Their fans are just the same flat brim hat wearing meatheads.
anonymous   posted 73 days ago
WHERE THE FUCK IS BORN OF OSIRIS?
anonymous   posted 73 days ago
stray from the path
anonymous   posted 72 days ago
If you don't vote for VYGR, then go fuck yourself.
anonymous   posted 72 days ago
no century???? this is the worst list ever, filled with faggots.
anonymous   posted 70 days ago
SLEEPING GIANT!
mykecity   posted 70 days ago
TesseracT
anonymous   posted 70 days ago
Where's Drake?
anonymous   posted 70 days ago
Wow. A whole lot of faggots who like two singer meshugguh love visiting this site. Thanks lambgoat for helping in the fight against real music.
anonymous   posted 70 days ago
Well it's official lamb goat is out of touch. Fallujah and The Contortionist are not even on the list
anonymous   posted 70 days ago
I am sooo suprised The Black Dahlia Murder did not get more votes. Like, I get that Volumes randomly got really big this year, but still, "Ritual" was a fucking great album, and it did good to the whole metal community as a whole: Black Metal; Death Metal; Deathcore; etc. They somehow appeased to the rest of the metal crowd and perfected their sound. Crazy solo's, breakdowns, and just overall great sound structures to keep you listening to the whole way thru.
anonymous   posted 70 days ago
this list is shit, volumes had it's scene kid fanbase probably rush this poll like it did for thrash and burn or whatever that shit tour is called. stupid mexicans who wish they were black are stoked
blackguy_gimmick   posted 70 days ago
shoulda renamed this "Lambgoat 'band that is most active on facebook spamming' of the year 2011"

Love periphery, but an album with like 2 new songs is close to the top of best album? nah--Periphery just spams the shit out of facebook telling ppl to "vote for us here" or "like bandhappy"
anonymous   posted 70 days ago
^ so true

and if The Devil Wears Prada had told their fans to vote for this they would have won too
anonymous   posted 70 days ago
Backtrack should of won volumes is shit their ep is better then this album
MarginError   posted 70 days ago
who the fuck are volumes and how did they put out a better album than Ulcerate?
anonymous   posted 69 days ago
VOLUMES FANS ARE MEATHEADS WITH TAPOUT T-HIRTS AND FLATBRIM HATS

SO HARDCORE
anonymous   posted 69 days ago
THIS BOARD IS FUCKING GAY
HBDad   posted 69 days ago
This poll is obviously broken! I love Volumes but there is no way the winner should NOT have been Devin Townsend's "Deconstruction". That is like the best metal album of the last 10 years, possibly best album of any genre for the last 10 years!
anonymous   posted 69 days ago
thats a bold statement
horseheadxbookends   posted 69 days ago
just sampled a song and didn't get a minute in...they shouldn't have even been on the list
anonymous   posted 66 days ago
Never heard of Volumes before in my life, and good god this is nothing special at all. Fuck this stupid fucking year.
xfallofmanx   posted 65 days ago
fred durst is stoked
xfallofmanx   posted 65 days ago
.....and superior drummer is stoked too
anonymous   posted 65 days ago
This list cannot be taken seriously and is in no way legit.
Sorry Volumes.
Melvination   posted 65 days ago
I started coming lambgoat because I thought people listened to good music here. I guess I was wrong.
anonymous   posted 65 days ago
yeah sorry volumes, via is very cool, and i have difficulty removing it from my car stereo, but if born of osiris were on this list they would've and should've won.
anonymous   posted 50 days ago
FUNERARY IS THE BEST ALBUM 0F 2011.. FUCK THE REST
c_hoover_poopinmire   posted 5 days ago
Fuck all you Faggots. Will haven. Weekend nachos. Brutal truth. Thank you and good night